The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to announce a comprehensive list of its new polling units across Nigeria next week.

INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this on Monday in Abuja.

Mr Yakubu spoke at the formal handover of a new fire truck deployed to INEC’s headquarters in Abuja by the Federal Fire Service (FFS).

He said details of the locations of its registration centres and the procedure for the commencement of online registration for resumption of nationwide continuous voter registration (CVR) would be made available.

He commended the firefighters and other security agencies for protecting INEC’s facilities, pointing out that the support came on the eve of the resumption of the CVR nationwide in the next three weeks.

“We earlier assured Nigerians that we shall conclude work on the expansion of voter access to polling units and make the new polling units available to citizens ahead of the CVR exercise.

“I am glad to report that we have accomplished this task for the first time in 25 years. A comprehensive list of the new polling units will be published next week.

“Similarly, details of the locations of the registration centres and the procedure for the commencement of online registration will also be made available after a series of regular consultative meetings with stakeholders next week,” Mr Yakubu disclosed.

As a member of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES), he noted that the fire service was concerned as other security agencies about the recent attacks on INEC’s facilities.

“Today’s inauguration of the new fire engine is another affirmation of the support to the commission from the FFS whose personnel, already deployed permanently to the commission

“The personnel will continue to operate and maintain the fire engines and other firefighting equipment installed by INEC,” Mr Yakubu said.

(NAN)